What happened to Phil Fish?

He was on Twitter a bunch until Fez released, and then just stopped. Where did he go?

EDIT: I'm hijacking my own comment and saying that I've always liked Phil Fish. He seems just as loud-mouthed and arrogant as the Penny Arcade guys, but chose the wrong time to make a big deal out of something. He also might've been a tad bit immature about it.

P.S. In the special edition of Indie Game: The Movie, there is apparently a "Phil Fish Epilogue". So I guess they filmed something after FEZ was released?

EDIT AGAIN: I hate the Internet. We could have had Fez II you fuckers! Why'd y'all have to screw it up? I hate you all. Also, the "Special Edition" of IG:TM just got released and The Phil Fish epilogue is great. Makes the recent news even worse.

I've been wondering about this. I knew he stopped using Twitter because people wouldn't stop saying crap to him, but I would have though some sort of interview would have surfaced by now as a Fez postmortem.

After watching Indie Game: The Movie and seeing how both Jonathan Blow and the Team Meat guys became depressed after it was released, and Fez's super hard puzzles being brute forced quickly rather than becoming a rare and mystical thing I hope he is happy with what he created.

Fish rage quit Twitter after the internet gave him shift for being an asshole at GDC and the IGF Awards.

In fairness, he was a massive asshole.

Was it just the comments about Japanese games? That's all I ever heard about and the backlash seemed excessive if that was purely the reason.

After that happened, he subsequently won the top IGF award for Fez (for the second time in four years) and then basically told everyone on Twitter to suck his dick. As a winner, he demonstrated no grace nor class.

Fish rage quit Twitter after the internet gave him shift for being an asshole at GDC and the IGF Awards.

In fairness, he was a massive asshole.

Was it just the comments about Japanese games? That's all I ever heard about and the backlash seemed excessive if that was purely the reason.

After that happened, he subsequently won the top IGF award for Fez (for the second time in four years) and then basically told everyone on Twitter to suck his dick. As a winner, he demonstrated no grace nor class.

He didn't tell everyone to suck his dick. It was one guy being a bellend.

After watching Indie Game: The Movie, it's easy to see why he acted the way he did. Jonathan Blow gained a reputation of being arrogant and kind of an asshole post-launch of Braid because he felt people didn't understand his game. Phil Fish I'm sure is the same way, judging by his passion when he was making it. He made Fez for so long, it's hard for him to see the mistakes as he said in the movie, and also I'm sure he feels no one truly understands Fez and is upset about it.

Even if you agree with him, you at least have to admit that the time, place, and manner of his words were very poorly chosen. You don't just insult people to their faces when they've been nothing but polite and appreciative toward you.

Any time i write anything to one of the Giant Bomb staff on twitter i get several snarky message from other users of this site with the same basic twitter etiquette that phil fish showed in his posts. what the fuck are we judging him for? are we so high and mighty, i put my hand up and say if i won something i could be proud of, everyone else can suck my dick and choke on it!

He was at a screening of Indie Game: The Movie I attended about a month ago. He seemed like he'd had enough of internet culture for the time being. He's working on a new game that he wouldn't talk about much since he felt like he revealed Fez way, way too early.

Even if you agree with him, you at least have to admit that the time, place, and manner of his words were very poorly chosen. You don't just insult people to their faces when they've been nothing but polite and appreciative toward you.

What Phil Fish said was dickish and he reacted poorly, but I write it off just as I do when Jeff tells people to "Fuck off idiot" on ForumSpring. Neither are completely unjustified in what they have said in a public forum, even if staying silent would have been more mature. Doesn't spoil my enjoyment of the things they create.

Edit: But to the OP's original point. I dunno about Fish. Dude just disappeared after Fez released. Maybe he's working on more puzzles and fake alphabets.

I like Phil. I guess I get the hate, but I definitely think it's way bigger than it should be. He spoke his mind as, and has a history of doing such. There's nothing actually wrong with that, especially when he's basically right.

The internet likes to make sweeping judgments on strangers they know nothing about but I like to say that he made a fairly dickish comment on Japanese developers, one that had a lot of truth behind it but could have been articulated better. Also,

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Fish rage quit Twitter after the internet gave him shift for being an asshole at GDC and the IGF Awards.

In fairness, he was a massive asshole.

Was it just the comments about Japanese games? That's all I ever heard about and the backlash seemed excessive if that was purely the reason.

After that happened, he subsequently won the top IGF award for Fez (for the second time in four years) and then basically told everyone on Twitter to suck his dick. As a winner, he demonstrated no grace nor class.

He didn't tell everyone to suck his dick. It was one guy being a bellend.